About the Artwork
Le boniment du clown
between 1923 and 1929
Georges Rouault (Artist) French, 1871-1958 Edmond Frapier (Publisher) French
Lithograph printed in black ink on wove paper
Image: 13 1/8 × 8 3/8 inches (33.3 × 21.3 cm) Sheet: 17 7/8 × 13 inches (45.4 × 33 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Emma J. Farwell Fund
40.32
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: Georges Rouault
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 47/50 Inscribed, bottom left edge of sheet: 26881 Girgue [sic] Forain. Boxeurs
Watermark: Ar(ches) Partial drystamp, lower right edge: Galerie des Peintres-Graveurs (Lugt 1057b)
Provenance
1940-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Georges Rouault, Le boniment du clown, between 1923 and 1929, lithograph printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Emma J. Farwell Fund, 40.32.
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